The Keep On Fighting activists had a lot of guts to risk being chased by angry dads when they disrupted the children's fishing day at Coombes.

Fishing is hugely popular but The Argus published a photograph of a lad innocently holding up a fish by a hook in its mouth. If that's not cruel, I don't know what is.

I had always been reassured by anglers that fish are scooped out of the water in nets and handled gently.

I've yet to hear a convincing defence of angling. The routine assertions that it's legal, good for the environment and fish don't feel pain don't justify it.

There would be outcry if any other living creatures were treated like fish but unlike foxhunting, angling is hugely popular across the social spectrum. No one wants to be objective about it.

Martin Salter MP asks if the protesters will target fish and chip shops but there's a difference.

Fishing for survival is as old as mankind. Killing fish to provide food is one thing but doing it for sport is another.

I'm sure the caught cod on the deck of a boat didn't have a worse death than the pile of rotting bream I saw on a riverbank.

Fish tend to die of trauma in anglers' keep nets.

I don't belong to Keep On Fighting but I admire them. They're fighting a pretty hopeless battle.

-Adrian Durrant, Eastbourne